With DragonCon coming up, a reminder that this mini-documentry exists about the Marriot Carpet Camo pattern. The costume that kicked off the "The Cult". Seriously, no one really cared until Volpin Props and his friends at Angry Dog Armor and God Save The Queen Fashions collaborated on this goofy thing that took on a life of its own.

https://youtu.be/D7cez0nl4TY?si=9nVOSPiHYgMGEre9

#DragonCon #Marriot #Cosplay

Fancy lad!!!!!!!!!!

Political intrigue! Poetry! Bodysharing, of a sort! Did I mention the political intrigue?

That is to say, you should read A Memory Called Empire

Happy September 1st, where Boston participates in lesbian culture through maximizing U-Haul rentals. I think it's beautiful.

some people who make programming easier

(who am I missing?)

The Storrowings will continue until Storrow Drive is turned back into the park it was meant to be!

The ghosts of James and Helen Storrow will continue to take their vehicular sacrifices. James led the campaign to preserve the riverbank as a park and Helen opposed the road (proposed after his death)

@universalhub

#Boston #Storrowed #StorrowDrive

This thread is now available as a blog post:
https://innig.net/teaching/liberal-arts-manifesto

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In college, I took a class called The Letters of Paul. I took it for two very good reasons:

1. I was (and am) named Paul.
2. The prof, Cal Roetzel, was (and is) cool.

I didn’t figure it was an especially practical course. It was for fun, for the challenge, for the cultural knowledge, for the pleasure of doing it.

WHAT LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION IS FOR: A THREAD

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the thing about working is that i hate it

Got some hefty-ish household bills to deal with at the moment, so we're leaving this #ebook #sale running for a while. Feel like grabbing 36 DRM-free SF, fantasy & YA ebooks for $44? Now's your chance! (Plz share the post if you feel inclined? Thanking you!) https://bit.ly/SummerSaleWholeStore44

Hello tech bros a reminder that dark mode gives some people with certain kinds of astigmatism (me) eye strain and headaches and so no it's not always "the accessible option"

Test your software on light mode please

If the icons on your buttons are now white on a white background because you never did this, you made an app that I can't use

New blog post on user support frustration, its causes, and how we could build the "infrastructure of equanimity" in #opensource, including ideas for potential cross-project tools & practices.

https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2023/user-support-equanimity-potential-cross-project-tools-practices-open-source/

Shout-outs to @davidism, Heidi Waterhouse, @offby1, @jacob, Nicole Harris, @bernard, + @georgia for work & conversations that I built on in this piece.

#maintainer #maintainership #FLOSS #UX #UserExperience #sustainability #ProjectManagement #Python #PythonPackaging #burnout

A big chunk of Motherboard’s staff just went off and built their own thing.

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"my brother in christ" - old, boring
"my sister in satan" - new, interesting

however i introduce
"my sibling in the void" - unique, engaging, yet neutral

Me in the lead-up to any trip: I'm so excited for this trip!

Me the night before any trip: I should stay at home, all the time

3D printers are great and all but fuck me if they don't remind me of running Linux in the 1990s.

And not in a good way.

I've got a small corpus of human-generated writing (my own and a few collaborators) that various "AI-detectors" flag as "AI-generated" at very high rates. I'd like to see what Turnitin's AI Detection does with this corpus, but none of us who are involved in this work have access to Turnitin. Would anyone who DOES have access be willing to run our corpus through it?

Boosts welcome!